Dear colleagues, partners and friends of Menaqua Foundation, As we announced in April, Menaqua has become Menaqua Foundation. Consequently, we have spent the past quarter transitioning from being a company to learning to operate as a foundation. Where previously we were supported by a single financier, we are now funded on a project basis by...
Artist and designer Fatima Gharaibeh has teamed up with the Menaqua Foundation to raise money to regreen the Middle East. She is doing this by creating a collection of 1,000 NFTs (non-fungible tokens) that will be available for sale online this autumn. Fatima is generously donating 25% of the money raised to the Menaqua Foundation’s...
It was in November 2018, after six months of intensive preparation, that we took our first physical steps in the Middle East. In Jordan to be exact. We had organized a big conference with the Ministry of Agriculture that aimed to introduce Menaqua and our recommended Cocoon technology to the Middle East. The Middle East...
In our ‘Field Notes’ series, members of the Menaqua team write about their visits to and experiences in our project countries. In this edition, Preethi Sridharan, Menaqua’s agroforestry specialist, reports from Jordan. During our visits to Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, we see beautiful, undulating landscapes and highlands. As we move across rangelands and barren...
MENAQUA’s planting site location in Al Hisha (Jordan, 2021) New Reforestation Project in Al-Hisha, Jordan Menaqua Land Restoration together with the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture and our new partner EcoMatcher have established a reforestation project in Al-Hisha area of Ma’an Governorate. The main aim of the project is to support recovery of the degraded landscape...
‘I am Growing II, لى شجرة’ in Gaza Newsletter, December 2021 Children involved in ‘I am Growing II’ planting trees in Gaza, Palestine, 2021. I called my tree ‘Sama’, and I visit Sama more often to water her. I started to notice that there are more leaves growing on Sama every day and it makes me happy. I learned from “I am...
On 27 January 2021 Menaqua organised the webinar “How to plant more trees in MENA?”. The issue was addressed from different angles by three keynotes speakers with extensive hands-on experience in reforestation and sustainable agricultural development. The keynote speakers gave short, mind sharpening presentations followed by a forum discussion where questions, concerns and propositions from...
MENAQUA’s story in Palestine In this newsletter we would like to focus on our activities in one of the countries which is now also part of our Climate Corridor Initiative (CCI): Palestine. Palestine suffers from fluctuating and low rain fall. Over the years, the scarcity of rainwater and limited access to natural irrigation water resources,...
Our Latest News: The Climate Corridor Initiative (CCI) has selected four locations where projects are initiated to improve natural capital, biodiversity and strengthen livelihoods of local communities. CCI is a joint climate initiative started in 2020 by a consortium consisting of the Nature Conservation Center of the American University of Beirut, the Ministry of Agriculture...
MENAQUA Activities in November In the first week of November, the Menaqua team visited Amman, the fascinating capital city of Jordan. Our program was divided in three parts: the workshop, the monitoring of the pilot sites in Faisal Station and Maysara, and undertaking field visits on Monday and Tuesday. We started with our well-attended workshop...
